Mailing blank or sheet



H'. 0. FARRINGTON.

MAILING BLANK 0R SHEET.

APPLICATION FILED :AN.26, 1917.. RENEwED Nov. 27. 1920;

1,376,865. Patented May 3, 1921.

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HERBERT 0. FARRINGTON, OF KITTERY, MAINE, ASSIGNOR F ONE-HALF TO ARTHUR i W. HARRISON, 0F BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

MAILING BLANK OR SHEET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 3, 1921.A

Application led January 26, 1917, Serial No. 144,616. Renewed November 27, 1920. Serial No. 426,879.

' To all 'whom't may concern; Y

Maine, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Mailing Blanks or Sheets, of which the following is a specification. 2

This invention relates to means for bearing written or printed, or partly printed and partly written or filled, communications, such as notices, statements and the like, and the object of my invention is to provide means whereby the sending of such communications will` save paper and time, will ,prevent any possibility oftheir being addressed to the wrong persons, and will, when sent through the mails, always bear the information which the Government furnishes as to place and date of mailing.

To these ends my invention consists in the lank substantially-as hereinafter described and claimed.

0f the accompanying drawing:

Figure 1 is a plan view of one of my improved blanks, partly printed.

Fig. 2 is a plan view from the other side, after the blank. has been folded and sent through the mails.

It is to be understood at the outset that so far 'as the mere shape of-the blank is concerned, especially its edges, it ma be similar to any well-lenown or .pire rred envelop blank. It must, however, have a designated place on one of the foldable flaps for the address, and a window in the body portion so located that when the blank is ready to be mailed or otherwise transmitted to the addressee, and is folded for that purpose, the address can be seen through said window while all other information borne by the blank is concealed by the several flaps. By window I mean an opening, protected or not by a transparent or transluf cent. strip, or an area of the paper which is so treated as to be sufficiently transparent to permit an address to be read through it.

The blank illustrated comprises the body bottom flaps respectively, because of the way the printed matter or directions are borne on the blank, although, as a matterof fact, the iap 13 will be uppermost when the blank is folded and the address is being examined. f The window 15 is so located in the body` 10 that the end fiaps, when folded in, will not extend over it, and the flap 12 carries an address field or designated space 16 which is so located as to register with the window when said flap is folded. Said field or space is designated by a printed or creased rectangle or any preferred equivalent manner. For the instruction of new users, V"directions such as shown in Fig. 1 may be printed-on the blank, or such directions may be borne bya separate slip furnished with a quantity of the blanks. L

The blanks will preferably be furnished to users in flat (unfolded) condition, but having the creases 14. rIhis .flat condition will enable printers to ,print'any desired soA matter orforms, for such uses as bills, statements, notices of meetings, etc. Either or both ofthe end flaps may be printed with forms to -provide for their being used as stubs.

Preferably a coating of adhesive, for seal- 1 eration requires no more time or effort than A what is required to fold a sheet that is to be inserted in an envelop in fact, less, because the blank already has creases which facilitate folding.

It-will readily be understood lthat since one piece of paper serves to carry both the communication and the address, and without exposing the communication itself, there is a great saving of paper over the use of an envelop having an inclosed sheet.

AThere is a material time-saving over the use of an ordinary window envelop with an inclosed sheet, because such sheet must be folded and inserted with care to insure an address on the sheet registering with the Window.

The device renders impossible the confusionl which results from addressing an ordinary envelop to a person other than the one for Whom the inclo'sure was intended.

A person wishing to preserve evidence of the date of mailing a letter inclosed in as indicated by comparing Figs. 1 and A2.`

I have illustrated a forni or shape of blank similar to a well-known form of envelop blank. Any other form may be used. If the form is such that one or the other of the end flaps 11 can be withdrawn, after f the Hap 13 has been closed and sealed, then the blank can be used for many kinds ofl mailable matter under l-cent postage. 'On

the other hand, the bla-nk may hav l such portions provided with gum so as to enable it to be sealed against any possible examination of its inner surface excepting after such rupturing as is given to an ordinary envelop.

One advantage of providing but one adhesive-coated area, and that on the flap 13 which is the last one to be folded down, is that an unaccustomed user will then be unable to erroneously fold the blank and seal it even if the blank bears no printed directions as to how to fold it.

The mailing sheet as a wh'ole'is so formed, and the address-receiving indication 16 and the Window l5 are so located relatively to each other, that the user can not so fold the sheet as to result in covering any partof the space within the indication; and the user Will be practically certain to locateithe Such fasteningaddress so that the whole lof it will be readable through the window.

Having now described my. invention, and

illustrated one way of carrying the same intor practice, although without attempting toweX- plain all possible utilizations, I claim:

1. A mailingsheet having four creased lines relatively arranged to provide a central rectangularportion, a top flap, a bottom flap4 and two end flaps, each flap being of less area than the central portion, one of the flaps having a gummed area and all other flaps being ungumrned whereby liability of incorrect order of folding and sealing is avoided, the said sheet having at one side of one of lts crease llnes a window located to-register with an address borne by a portion of the sheet at the other side of said crease line when the sheet is folded on of one of its crease lines a window located to register with an address borne by a portion of the sheet at the other side of said crease line when the sheet is folded on said line, the structure of the whole, as specified, rendering it' certain thatwhen the sheet is folded and sealed and then mailed in the usual manner, the date of mailing the article will be shown by the post-mark on the re verse side of the same section of paper as that which bears the communication;

In testimony whereof I have ailixed by signature. j

HERBERT O. FARRING'ION. 

